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  • Crypto Struggles as Prices of Electricity Rise & Imaginary Money Falls

    We have to admit that we rather enjoy jumping on the dogpile of crypto fans

    A crypto hodler, crypto investor, and crypto analyst are in front of your house… how do you get them off your porch?

    — Pay them for the pizza, cancel the Uber, and ask them to leave the Instacart bags. —

    Crypto prices are crumbling but bitcoin continues to stay around $20K. It is just astounding that the price for a line item on a digital spreadsheet made of 1s and 0s of code is still that high. Even so, many “miners” (where are the pickaxes, sledge hammers and hard hats?) are crumbling as spiking electricity prices and lower hash prices (i.e. lower crypto prices) cut into the hodl fantasy business model.

    Crypto Prices Electricity

    BTC’s price has fallen about 56% year to date, and the sky continues to fall for various crypto and bitcoin miners. Unfortunately one of the causes is higher electricity prices, which also affects those of us in the real world that appreciate history, tangibility, and stability. Furthermore, the global recession is looming while inflation catches up with all the money the Fed printed the last few years and the unnatural interest rate they suppressed to make up for the 2008 financial collapse while they reloaded bankers’ pockets.

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    Hash price is a metric to determine the market value for each unit of hashing power, which is set through changes in bitcoin mining difficulty (which is currently high) and the price of the cryptocurrency. At a high level, the higher the hash rate the greater the difficulty to mine bitcoin — meaning that it takes more electricity to do so. If the electricity price is high, it’s harder to make a profit when they try converting imaginary money back into USD. Who’d a thunk it!

    BTC Prices Electricity

    The hash price is near a historical low, and it is about $70.72, down 80.5% from $361.82 a year ago. Additionally, energy prices have increased across many markets, which means miners’ expenses are at all-time highs.

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  • Bitcoin Mining for Energy Independence?

    Texas Congressman Endorses Bitcoin Mining for ‘Energy Independence’ to Lower Electric Rates

    Bitcoin mining is exploding in Texas. That’s partly because prominent politicians such as Rep. Pete Sessions are courting mining firms.

    The Public Utility Commission of Texas has approved a base rate increase for Southwestern Electric Power Company (American Electric Power). Southwestern Electric Power Company serves 187,500 customers in Northeast Texas and the Texas Panhandle.

    Southwestern Electric Power Company orginally filed its request at the Public Utility Commission of Texas on October 13, 2020. The Public Utility Commission of Texas decision authorized an annual increase of $41.6 million in its order.

    Rep. Pete Sessions, a 12-term Republican congressman from Waco, Texas, is the latest Washington, D.C. politician to publicly embrace Bitcoin.

    He tweeted, “Bitcoin mining will play a critical role in rebuilding energy independence in the USA.” His mini-missive comes three days after Sessions tweeted, in language that mirrors Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), “Bitcoin is aligned with American values and will strengthen the dollar.”

    Texas, once synonymous with oil, is the epicenter of a Bitcoin mining boom. According to data from fall 2021, Texas provides the fourth-highest hashrate of any state, with 14%. But Texas’ influence is likely even higher than that figure, given the large mining facilities that have either begun popping up in the past year or are in the works. For example, Argo purchased 300+ acres in West Texas last spring, while Foundry is partnering with or gobbling up solar and hydroelectric firms in the state.

    Why the Lone Star State?

    “Texas is such a goldilocks zone for bitcoin mining it’s unreal,” tweeted Coin Metrics co-founder Nic Carter over the weekend, citing “supportive policymakers” and the state’s energy infrastructure.

    Sessions is far from the only Texas politician to hail Bitcoin. Senator Ted Cruz has been increasingly aligning himself with cryptocurrency, while Governor Greg Abbott sees Bitcoin mining as a way to stabilize the state’s largely deregulated power grid while taking advantage of its large stores of untapped energy, including natural gas that can be burned but not transported. Texas also has plenty of wind and solar power to go around.

    Texas is such a goldilocks zone for bitcoin mining it’s unreal.

    – Supportive policymakers
    – Energy DNA
    – Most deregulated market, cheap power
    – Islanded grid, has to buy lots of ancillaries
    – Most renewable grid, most negative pricing events

    Texas has the largest net (summer) capacity of any state with 65% more than #2 California, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. And its lawmakers want to use that capacity to bring in money from crypto firms.

    “It’s a wonder that there’s mining anywhere else,” tweeted Carter. “Texas is just unreal in terms of mining suitability.”

    Texas now has the perfect opportunity to hone its sales pitch beyond the Bitcoin mining firms it’s been courting to a larger public that is still forming an opinion on cryptocurrency. After Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. and allied Western countries levied crippling sanctions against the country. Slight problem, though: Russia supplies an estimated 8% of the world’s oil.

    Therefore, those sanctions, plus voluntary pullouts from companies looking to decrease their exposure to public blowback or inadvertent sanctions violations, has helped push energy prices upward while re-igniting Republican calls for the U.S. to become energy independent.

    In this line of thinking, there’s no need to worry about the consequences of sanctioning Russia if the U.S. doesn’t need the energy it provides (though it can still be hit with higher prices on imports from countries that do).

    Sessions clearly aligns with this view. And he, along with a growing group of Texas pols, is pushing his state to get it done.